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Post by nickconrad on Apr 3, 2009 4:53:44 GMT -5
My first reaction to this movie was that this woman should have really learned more Russian before she tried to speak it. Shouting "zdrastvue" to a stranger (about twenty minutes in) is downright insulting, and I think the filmmakers should have known that when they decided to pen the line into the script. That most likely seems ridiculous to someone without any Russian lineage, but it was more than enough for me to lose any connection or immersion with the main character. Once I was disconnected from the main character so strongly, I am sure that there was no chance for the film to get in my head, there was no chance for that immersion to resurface with me; therefore, I am asking you folks what you thought of the film. If you liked it, please tell me what it was that worked for you, so that maybe I can go back on return viewings and get something out of it.
If the title doesn't ring a bell it is a 2006 movie that debuted with the first Horrorfest, but received such a good response that it was released on its own merit afterward. I know it may seem ridiculous of me to ask this based on a single word, but that's just the experience I had. Any input would be greatly appreciated.
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Post by lazario on Apr 4, 2009 2:49:29 GMT -5
Someone really needs to re-name this thread and dedicate it after The 8 Films to Die For.
I personally haven't checked out any of those "films" yet. And I don't really plan to either. Mulberry Street kind of sounds like it's worth checking out. But if that sucks, I'm just not going to bother with anymore new horror again. I'll have learned my lesson once and for all and just toe-tagged this decade in the genre like it pretty much deserves to be.
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Post by shunty on Apr 4, 2009 3:57:37 GMT -5
i thought it was mediocre at best. that thing with the russian musta been annoying, personally i don't even remember that. the only thing that really worked for me was the atmosphere including the setting and visual darkness
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Post by tsmooth31 on Apr 6, 2009 1:08:15 GMT -5
the abandoned always sounded good to me but i never got around to checking it out
they just released the third segment or whatever you wanna call it of the 8 films, i havent checked any of them out but plan to, the best one i have seen came from the last batch of them called borderland
and laz mulberry street was pretty bad, it was unoriginal. boring, cliche and the camera was VERY annoying always moving very fast during the attacks, you couldnt even tell what was going on because ontop of that it was also dark.....skip it
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Post by lazario on Apr 9, 2009 10:42:28 GMT -5
laz mulberry street was pretty bad, it was unoriginal. boring, cliche and the camera was VERY annoying always moving very fast during the attacks, you couldnt even tell what was going on because ontop of that it was also dark.....skip it I'm sure I wouldn't like it. But if it's good, I want to see it. I'm sure I won't like The Strangers either, but I can't ignore all the critical high-praise it's getting. I will see it one day. It will probably turn out to be an okay movie. And the camera shook a lot during 28 Days Later. Didn't stop that from being one of the best horror films to come out of the genre in this entire decade. What I want to see is a movie with good characters, intelligent dialogue, and some kind of story ambition. That's not something we're getting with the remakes right now or the Saw series. So, I'm keeping myself open on Mulberry Street. And that's the only "Film to Die For" that I'm going to bother with.
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Post by nickconrad on Apr 9, 2009 23:37:38 GMT -5
The Strangers gets critical high praise? I am genuinely surprised by that. I saw it as something that built up an amazing amount of promise and potential in the first half of the movie only to grind it all to dust as thoroughly as possible for the second.
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Post by shunty on Apr 10, 2009 5:36:18 GMT -5
yeah, the strangers sucked hard. one of the worst pieces of hack horror i've seen
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Post by lazario on Apr 10, 2009 9:44:00 GMT -5
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Post by nickconrad on Apr 10, 2009 17:38:38 GMT -5
I must be on to something then with the notion that I'm the oddball out on my opinion with a lot of horror movies.
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Post by lazario on Apr 11, 2009 4:42:07 GMT -5
To find those high praises, I had to swim through a lot of reviews. Several of them were less than lukewarm.
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Post by tsmooth31 on Apr 11, 2009 16:55:44 GMT -5
yea i saw alot of good reviews for the strangers, even the trailer was pretty good
the movie was bad bad bad tho
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Post by lazario on Apr 12, 2009 16:04:34 GMT -5
I just want to keep my mind open about it before I see it. I think I'm bumping the movie up to like #2 or 3 on my Netflix. Just for the hell of it.
But you know T, that I'm going to bitch about those masks when I do see it! And didn't some woman with a babydoll whispery voice kinda go, "'cause you were home"?
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Post by shunty on Apr 13, 2009 3:05:38 GMT -5
i've got a more entertaining idea than watching the strangers. stick your hand as far up your ass as you can and fart.
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Post by tsmooth31 on Apr 14, 2009 21:06:26 GMT -5
he might be able to get it up farther then most of us if u know what i mean
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Post by lazario on Apr 16, 2009 7:58:12 GMT -5
I've got shorter arms than you think (I'm not a Sideshow Carny, but they're short). i've got a more entertaining idea than watching the strangers. stick your hand as far up your ass as you can and fart. I'm sure the movie's better than THAT. That's just fucking gross. Nothing gross is that much more entertaining than a stalker movie. What could honestly be THAT bad about it? I read pieces of a few of the reviews and they said the reason so many people don't like it is because it's a movie with a dark, anti-human ending. Saw had a real ACTION MOVIE ending. So, people treated it like an action movie - "who cares?" if the characters you've watched for 2 hours don't make it. But I can imagine a movie like The Strangers being nihilistic and that bothering people. So long as it's better than Frailty (not so whiny and manipulative), I'm IN! I think I'm bumping Strangers up to #1 on my Netflix. We'll just have to see...
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Post by shunty on Apr 16, 2009 21:23:41 GMT -5
you misunderstand. the reason it sucks so hard is because it is mindfuckingly boring. the couple that looks like they just stepped out of a target commercial gets stalked by nameless killers. they eventually kill them. the end.
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Post by nickconrad on Apr 17, 2009 1:05:01 GMT -5
I thought that the pitfalls of it were more about its reliance on the same technique over, and over, and over again. Okay. I see the creepy villain sneaking up behind Mr. Hero with an axe. Oh, no! Mr. Hero turned around, and nobody was there! The trick is cliched enough, but to do it every 10 minutes for 90 minutes?
Not to mention that there was no atmosphere besides the atmospheric tools they overtly tried to shove down your throat (i.e. the record player) which served to ruin the atmosphere even more.
I dunno. Laz, see the movie, and make up your own mind. It seems like the people that dislike it do so for their own reasons. That tells me there is room in there to get a good experience out of it.
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Post by lazario on Apr 22, 2009 10:22:31 GMT -5
you misunderstand. the reason it sucks so hard is because it is mindfuckingly boring. the couple that looks like they just stepped out of a target commercial gets stalked by nameless killers. they eventually kill them. the end. Good review. Now that's actually something to think about. Not to mention that there was no atmosphere besides the atmospheric tools they overtly tried to shove down your throat (i.e. the record player) which served to ruin the atmosphere even more. Atmosphere is definitely important to me. I dunno. Laz, see the movie, and make up your own mind. It seems like the people that dislike it do so for their own reasons. That tells me there is room in there to get a good experience out of it. I'm mostly looking for intelligence or a dark twisted version of humanity. Or, anything other horror films just won't do. Already, this doesn't scream "TORTURE MOVIE" or whathaveyou. But, as I already remarked because of the film's trailer, the look of the killers is stupid and cliched as hell. Not to mention "home invasion" has already been done before. As early as the 70's in films like Straw Dogs and Bone. Thanks - I do much appreciate both of your inputs.
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